Andrei Ujica
Filmmaker and director of the Filminstitut of ZKM Karlsruhe.
Born in Timisoara, Romania, he lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe.
With a background in literature, Andrei Ujica has published a number of stories and essays since 1968, such as "Television/Revolution Das Ultimatum des Bildes" (The Ultimatum of the Image). He has lived and worked in Germany since 1981 where he teaches literature, film and media theory. In 1990 Ujica decided to devote himself to cinema and created "Videogramme einer Revolution" (Videograms of a Revolution, 1992) in collaboration with Haroun Faroki, which became a landmark film on the relationship between political power and the media in Europe in the End of Cold War Europe. His second film "Out of the Present" (1995), tells the story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who spent ten months aboard the space station Mir, while on earth, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Lately, Andrei Ujica has also been interested in the convergence between cinematographic views and artistic scenes, thus his films became part of notorious exhibitions.